Homework Help: English: Rhythm/Scansion

Posted by * on Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 6:16pm.

/ u / u / u u / u u
Marvell's garden that place of solitude

u / / u / u /
is not where I'd choose to live

/ u u / / u
yet is the fixed sundial

u / u /
that turns me round

u / u /
unwillingly

u u / /
is a hot glade

u / u / u u
as closer, closer I come to

/ u / u
contradiction

u u / / u / u /
to the shade green within the green

/
shade

Hi I'd just like to know if I've set the stresses to this stanza? and the rhythm it creates?
/ = stressed
u = unstressed

English: Rhythm/Scansion - Writeacher, Sunday, February 3, 2008 at 6:34pm
I'd change these:

/ u / u u / u / u u
Marvell's garden that place of solitude

u / u u / u /
is not where I'd choose to live

Speak the other lines aloud and see where you'll make other changes.

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